The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#845 - Take a shower and go to bed

The stone was just there to guide people, but somehow it suddenly fast-forwarded to saving the world.

Moreover, these people talked about saving the world, but in reality, they were just wandering around Bailongbo like headless flies.

Indeed, in Shi Tou's view, the most absurd thing about the whole matter was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where they were going.

Every day, when the sun went down and the Milky Way shone overhead, the seemingly drowsy old man would fiddle with his strange instruments, while writing and drawing on the ground.

Lu Jing would then open the large box containing the Brahma Heaven on time, and have a friendly exchange with the bronze statue inside, finally determining where to go the next day.

In the first few days, their direction was fixed.

But on the seventh day, there was a sudden deviation, but fortunately it was only a slight adjustment compared to the previous direction.

By the twelfth day, the deviation was relatively large, turning directly from northwest to southwest.

After another six days, things started to become more and more outrageous.

It also confirmed to Shi Tou that these people were just wandering around in the desert, because they actually turned around and returned in the direction of Ulan City.

However, this time they only walked for half a day before stopping.

It wasn't until night that Professor Xu, after observing the stars again, overturned his previous conclusion and pointed out a new direction.

This time, Lu Jing couldn't take it anymore, and after pondering for a long time, he said, "Old sir, is it possible that you miscalculated?"

Professor Xu glanced at Lu Jing and said, "This time, at your request, I calculated it twice, and then asked An Shi to help me check it. There's no mistake."

"Then why is the direction so different from before?" Lu Jing asked in confusion.

Professor Xu's eyes flickered, "The starry sky here is a bit strange."

After he finished speaking, he saw Lu Jing looking at him with a hesitant expression.

Professor Xu immediately understood what someone was thinking, and said unhappily, "I'm not making excuses for myself, and I'm not as stubborn as you think…"

"You mean someone, because they don't want us to find the bead, artificially interfered and changed the position of the stars, but that's a bit too outrageous…"

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you pull out the existence that imprisoned the dragon back then, they shouldn't have such means."

Lu Jing, who had taken middle school geography, knew better than anyone how far away those little things hanging in the night sky were from them.

Not to mention moving a planet from such a distance, even those immortal cultivation novels wouldn't dare to write like that.

After a pause, he added, "Let me just guess, the person who hid the bead probably added an invisible罩子 between us and those stars."

"Refraction phenomenon?" Lu Jing was stunned.

"What refraction phenomenon?" This time it was Professor Xu's turn to be confused.

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain, it roughly means that we usually see objects through light, and light will be refracted when passing through a medium. Theoretically, by changing the material or thickness of the medium, it will bring about a visual shift of the object."

Professor Xu listened in a daze.

At this time, the little Taoist Xie Anshi suddenly said, "It's like when we look at chopsticks inserted in water, the chopsticks will be refracted, as if they are broken, but in fact, after taking out the chopsticks, we find that the chopsticks are not broken, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's what I mean." Lu Jing nodded and muttered, "If someone really added a罩子 in the sky above this Gobi Desert, then his physics must be good."

"But in that case, wouldn't the star map be useless?" Kui said, "Didn't the person who left this star map hope that someone could find the bead?"

Everyone was puzzled by this question, and no one answered.

In the end, a chuckle came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahma Heaven inside, who had come back to life, and said, "Do you know the reason?"

However, Brahma Heaven closed his mouth again at this time.

"Speak, what do you want?" Lu Jing said straightforwardly.

"A sacrifice." Brahma Heaven licked his lips, "I have guided you for so many days, but you haven't given me anything, so it's not too much for me to make this request now, right?"

As Brahma Heaven spoke, his eyes swept over Shi Tou, causing the latter to shudder.

"As a reward, how about I break your remaining two legs?" Lu Jing said lightly, "I don't think you can use them anyway."

"Threats are useless to me." Brahma Heaven shook his head and smiled, "I am only descending into this bronze statue. Even if you destroy the bronze statue, I won't feel any pain."

Lu Jing couldn't refute.

Although he knew that the bronze statue in front of him was just a strange object, and did not truly carry the will of Brahma Heaven, and that death was death, the latter, as a strange object, obviously would never realize this.

So the other party really wouldn't care about his threats.

Seeing that Lu Jing didn't speak, and seemed to be lost in thought, Brahma Heaven continued to lure him, "You said you want to save the world. I like what you are doing. Usually in such stories, everyone in the team will have a purpose, and some people's purpose is to sacrifice for this world."

His words sent goosebumps all over Shi Tou's body.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately reacted. This is Bailongbo, a dead world ruled by wind and sand. Even if he turned around and ran away now, he would not be able to save his life.

Because once he left the team, he would not be able to survive for a few days without the water and dry food on the camel.

In other words, his life and death now depended entirely on Lu Jing's decision.

And Lu Jing hadn't spoken for a long time, and now everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Seemingly wanting to see how he would choose.

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Lu Jing's mind. Exchanging the life of an irrelevant person for the whereabouts of the bead was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it was a bit unfair to Shi Tou himself, the world was about to be destroyed, and now was obviously not the time for womanly benevolence.

Since ancient times, those who can achieve great things must be ruthless when they should be ruthless.

After a moment of silence, Lu Jing spoke again.

"If you don't want to say it, shut up and go to bed early."

A look of disappointment appeared in Brahma Heaven's only remaining eye, "Such indecision will not save the world."

"Come on, if I give him to you, I'll fall into your trap." Lu Jing said, "After that, you will constantly try to lower my bottom line."

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